This is a playground version of those Mexican stand-offs in John Woo movies, where two guys will walk around in a circle with guns pointed at each other’s faces while debating the virtues of chaos and order.

They’re bored, bored, bored until Chrissy has her evil thought and then OUCH!
This happened to me all the time when I was younger. Being the shortest in my family, the taller ones had me at their mercy in the playground.

Aw, do you think so? I’ve seen kids break arms from falling off monkey bars and my friend once had a seizure after a girl kicked her hard in the back at the bottom of a tall slide… but I’ve never seen anyone get seriously injured from a seesaw. Not saying it isn’t possible, though! Kids are really talented when it comes to hurting themselves.

That’s good–I’m from Canada, and all we have here now are these bizarre sled-looking things (full seats with guard rails on each side) that are operated by springs, and they don’t even go up and down; they just bounce a little bit. However, I do remember teeter-totters from my youth, I do remember cherry bombs (although we didn’t call them that here), and I also remember when the “safety modification” for teeter-totters was simply to implant a tire in the ground (so half the tire was visible above the ground) where each of the seats would come down, so crashing down hard wouldn’t hurt. I really liked that. :)

Well, that’s what I enjoyed the most during those years!!hahah
It’s fun and exciting!!!even though at the end you’re going to cry out loud because it’s too painful and you’re having goosebumps every time you knew your partner got that silly grin. haha